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Leonard Calvert (1606 - 1647) was the first Governor of the Province of Maryland.
He was the second son of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, the first proprietor of the Province of Maryland, with his eldest brother, Cecil destined to inherit the colony and the title.
On the female line, he'd some blood of Plantagenet Kings of England (Plantagenet - Mortimer - Wroth - Mynne - Calvert). Leonard's wife, Anne Brent, also descended from Edward III (Plantagenet - Beaufort - Neville - Willoughby - Greville - Reed - Brent). Anne Brent's linage is documented in Volume 4 of "Living Descendants of Blood Royal" published by World Nobility and Peerage. Anne was an Eleventh generation descendant from King Edward Third of England. Her G/G/grandmother was Margaret Neville, and so on back to Edward.

Colonization of Newfoundland

When Leonard's father received a patent for the Province of Avalon from James I of England in 1625, he relocated his newly converted Catholic family to Newfoundland. After a few years, he declared Avalon a failure and traveled to the Colony of Virginia where he found the climate much more suitable, but met with an unwelcome reception from the Virginians.
   As per his brother's instructions, Leonard at first attempted to govern the country in an absolutist way but in January 1635 he'd to summon a colonial assembly. In 1638 the assembly forced him to govern according to the laws of England, and subsequently the right to initiate legislation passed to the assembly.
   In 1638 Calvert seized a trading post in Kent Island established by the Virginian William Claiborne. In 1644 Claiborne led an uprising of Maryland Protestants. In 1643 Governor Calvert went to England to discuss policies with the proprietor, leaving the affairs of the colony in charge of acting Governor Brent. Leonard Calvert married Ann Brent, daughter of Richard Brent. Later in 1643, Ann gave birth to a son, William Calvert. Leonard Calvert returned to Maryland in 1644 with his wife and child, but was soon forced to flee to Virginia. He returned at the head of an armed force in 1646 and reasserted proprietorial rule.
   Leonard Calvert died of an illness in the summer of 1647. Before he died, he wrote a will naming Margaret Brent the executor of his estate.
   In 1890 the state of Maryland erected a monument to him and his wife at St. Mary's.

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